Health Minister Rachel Stephen-Smith announced the changes at a press conference on Wednesday.

"Except for close contacts of interstate cases, there will no longer be any restrictions on interstate travel to the ACT," Ms Stephen-Smith said.

"Close contacts of Omicron variant cases will now be required to follow the same quarantine requirements as all other close contacts of COVID-19 cases in the ACT."

ACT Health said about 100 Omicron contacts will be released early because of the new rules.

This comes as the ACT recorded seven new cases of COVID-19 in the 24 hours to 8pm Tuesday.

The additional requirement to undertake 14 days hotel quarantine for fully vaccinated arrivals who have been in South Africa, Lesotho, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Namibia, Eswatini and/or Malawi during the 14 days prior to arrival will be removed.

Unvaccinated international arrivals will continue to need to complete a mandatory 14-day quarantine period at their port of entry.

People will no longer need to fill out a declaration or exemption form to travel to the ACT, and all remaining high risk geographical areas will be removed.

The three-day quarantine requirement for fully vaccinated overseas arrivals will be retained, and this is likely to remain over the Christmas and New Year period.

This means that fully vaccinated close contacts of Omicron cases will now only need to quarantine for seven days from their last exposure and follow ACT Health guidance about movement in the community for days 8-14 post-exposure.

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In addition, household secondary contacts of Omicron close contacts will no longer be required to quarantine as secondary contacts.

All fully vaccinated close contacts of Omicron cases who are currently in the second week of their quarantine period will be contacted by ACT Health this afternoon to advise they can leave quarantine at 11.59pm tonight, subject to having received a negative result from their day-six test.

Testing requirements for close contacts have not changed - with tests required on entry into quarantine, day six and day 13.

Unvaccinated close contacts will continue to be required to undertake 14 days of quarantine.

Further information on these requirements will be available this afternoon on the ACT COVID-19 website.

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